Monday, December 05, 2011

Rev. Corey Brooks, pastor of New Beginnings Church in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago has been camped out on top of a vacant hotel to draw attention to the violence in the Woodlawn neighborhood and raise money to build a new youth center. The map above shows where the church is located and also shows where a 16-year old teen was shot and killed last Saturday.

I offer that service again today. I encourage you to read some of the essays I've posted on Scribd.com and use these in discussion groups this week at churches, congregations and mosques throughout the Chicago region. There is no more unifying activity than people from different faiths working together to help young people have the support system they need to grow up safely.

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My aim is to help communities create and sustain strategies that reduce poverty and inequality, using volunteer-based, non-school tutor/mentor programs as part of a strategy to transform opportunities for kids while increasing the number of non-poverty adults who become deeply involved. I'm Daniel Bassill. I have led volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs in Chicago since 1975. Learn more about me at http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/dan-bassill.

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